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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: Arplan, A plus Architects Location: Rīga, Latvia Area: 57582.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Aivars Silins General Contractor: Merks, Ltd, Saldus Celinieks, Ltd Technical Architect: Ksenija Semjonova, Valters Bruzgulis, Salvis ... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
This lovely arched structure is actually two homes, composed together to create a unique archway that stretches across this residential street. Japan-based Naf Architect & Design created this unique duo of buildings to stand together... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Mecanoo and Martinez + Johnson Architecture has released their completed preliminary designs for the modernization of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library – the only… library and Washington D.C. building ever designed ... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Award-winning actor and staunch eco-activist Leonardo DiCaprio is launching a new project: transforming a small island off the coast of Belize into an eco-resort and conservation area. He purchased the 104-acre Blackadore Caye with a par... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects Location: Milan, Italy Design Team: Mario Cucinella, David Hirsch, Marco Dell’Agli, Luca Stramigioli, Giuliana Maggio, Yuri Costantini Area: 14000.0 sqm Year: 2015 Photographs: Guido Maria Isolabell... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Dezeen » Architecture
Blackened timber, zinc and cement boards add variety to the facade of this beachside home near Melbourne, which is made up of several intersecting and overhanging blocks (+ slideshow). Melbourne studio Wolveridge Architects designed the ... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced three architects shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Wheelwright Prize. The $100,000 grant, which is awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-base... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Austrian architecture firm Viereck Architekten designed a series of wooden mountain chalets that offer otherwordly 360-degree views of the Alps. The buildings feature locally-sourced larch wood and recycled timber from parlors and old fa... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: West Architecture Location: London, UK Year: 2015 Photographs: Peter Cook Structural Engineer: Lyons O’Neill Quantity Surveyor: Franklin Project Management Contractor: Famella Building Contractors From the architect. ... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from - Architecture RSS FeedHell hath no fury like an architect scorned, as officials responsible for Milan’s new €60m (£44m) Museum of Culture have learnt after their alleged skimping on flooring materials prompted top designer David Chipperfield to disown the pro...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The upcoming 2015 World Expo in Milan received yet another major mark of distinction—the international design magazine Wallpaper crowned the Expo’s Pavilion Zero with the Wallpaper Design Award in the category “Best Building Site.” Desig... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
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The building's facade retrofitted with a new skin consists of multiple hexagonal components controlled through an algorithm that alters its density and attraction. Six functional zones were used as attractor points and the first paramete... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Tokyo-based French architect and filmmaker Vincent Hecht has captured the opening of Sou Fujimoto’s polyhedral Naoshima Pavilion on the Kagawa shoreline in Japan. The inhabitable, seven-meter, white stainless steel structure is part of t... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: Juan Felipe Uribe de Bedout Location: Santa Elena, Antioquia, Colombia Coordinator: Gerardo Olave Triana Design Team: Gerardo Olave Triana, Álvaro Criollo López, Andrés Castro Amaya Project Area: 92600.0 m2 Project Year: 2011... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from WebUrbanist » Architecture
One odd slightly off-kilter story after another was added to this once-modest house in Alaska as the trees decimated by a wildfire grew taller and taller, the ... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Plain old office walls driving you mad? Then you understand why Ben Brucker got his coworkers to decorate them with superhero murals! Related posts: Artist Students Transform A Boring Electric Tower Into A Dazzling Lighthouse Bored Cowor... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Archinect
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
A team from UNStudio, led by Ben van Berkel, has launched an interactive new work station inspired by the health advantages associated with standing while working. Dubbed the StandTable, the innovative office furniture is designed to sup... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from CTBUH Global NewsA groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Wanda Ridong Jewel development, which is due for completion in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2018. The complex will comprise three ocean-side mixed-use towers.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from CTBUH Global NewsMumbai’s financial district has moved to a different part of this bustling city—and real estate developers are in hot pursuit. A number of high-rise projects are being erected in a wave of luxury real estate.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from CTBUH Global NewsGiarratana Development has secured much of the capital needed to build a skyscraper in downtown Nashville. The tower at 505 Church St. has undergone a number of design revisions, the most recent of which calls for a 45-story tower.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: Ariel Furman, Daniela Garcia-Huidobro Location: Talagante, Talagante, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile Area: 208.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Nico Saieh Collaborator Architect: Pablo Dikenstein Construction: ENERGIZARQ Fr... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Architecture | The GuardianSome of the world’s most recognisable art, including works by Picasso, Matisse and Munch, goes on display together for first time at the Fondation Louis Vuitton Affluence and grandeur are not hard to come by in the wealthy enclave of Pas...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
A shortened version of this article by ArchDaily’s Managing Editor Rory Stott appears in HW 1-5 , a book by the organizers of Hello Wood about the camp’s first five years.… Arriving at Budapest’s international airport o... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Josef Stöger's Bavarian Forest National Park Treetop Walk Josef Stöger's winding timber walkway isn't just in the shape of an egg--it's also the longest treetop walk in the world! Located in Germany's Bavarian Forest National Park, this ... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from e-architect
The foundations of Europe's highest skyscraper has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the largest continuous concrete pour. The construction of the 400,000 sqm Lakhta Center tower in St Petersburg is expected to be completed by 201... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: Iván Castañeda, Alejandro Cohen, Cristián Nanzer, Inés Saal, Juan Salassa, Santiago Tissot Location: Sarmiento Park, Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina Architecture Director: Andrés Caparroz General Architectural And Landscape Proje... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The two-story house contains a garage, four bedrooms on the second floor, and an open-plan kitchen, dining, and living area on the ground floor. Large steel-framed windows maximize the amount of natural light in the building as well as v... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
There‘s really no escaping birthmarks, is there? Unless you turn them into a map of a fantasy world! Related posts: Linear Patterns By Chaim Machlev Make Tattoos Flow Over Your Body Creative Parents Make Their Baby Son A Star By Re-Enact... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The city of Velenje in Slovenia was designed as a garden city, so as increased car use put pressure on the city to increase parking spaces, sprawling parking lots began taking over the lush landscape. So when ENOTA was tasked with re-ima... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
“The role of the architect, or the designer, is that of a very good, thoughtful host, all of whose energy goes into trying to anticipate the needs of his guests – those who enter the building and use the objects … -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Dezeen » Architecture
Four "legs" support the upper level of this house in Portland, Oregon – a design intended to offer the openness of a glass house, without compromising on privacy (+ slideshow). Designed by locally based architect Ben Waechter, the reside... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Architecture on Huffington Post
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Thirty-two projects have been announced as the winners of the Inaugural Knight Cities Challenge, sharing in a prize pool of $USD5 million. An initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the challenge received an overwhelmin... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Architecture on Huffington Post
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Most of us use warm water to make clear ice cubes and think it to be the peak of fanciness. But these intricate ice cubes blow ours out of the, ahem, water. Related posts: 20 Unique And Creative Ice Cube Trays Scrap Wood Turned Into Stun... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: Piercy&Company Location: 63 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5NP, UK Area: 9032.0 sqm Year: 2015 Photographs: Hufton Crow Project Manager: Jackson Coles LLP Cost Consultant: AECOM Structural Engineer: AKT II Meph & Fire ... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Made of metallic polyester, the basic house is like a tiny, self-inflating prefab home. As soon as it interacts with either body temperature or heat from the sun, the inflatable shelter transforms from a flat sheet of material to an insu... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Dalibor Vesely, a celebrated architectural historian, philosopher and teacher, died this week in London aged 79. Over the course of his teaching career, which spanned five decades, he tutored a number of the world’s leading architects an... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: SoNo Arhitekti Location: Slovenia Architects In Charge: Edvard Blažko, Marko Volk, Nina Tešanović Area: 290.0 sqm Year: 2015 Photographs: Žiga Lovšin From the architect.… Exterior One-family villa M is located in an are... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Arch Daily
Architects: MDR Architectes Location: Baillargues, France Year: 2014 Photographs: Mathieu Ducros From the architect.… The project is part of a high quality site in regards to many criteria: first its location, the land is centrally...
